Michelle Obama describes years of working to 'keep up with bills'

In his book, he talks about how his CC was denied after the 2001 Congressional primary loss.

Add on the fact that they both had law school debt, and it's not much of a stretch to think they were in debt at one point.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']My lawyer friend makes $80K a year, but he has over $100K in debt and lives in DC.

I live better than him for less than $40K a year.[/quote]

Yep, lots of lawyers I know (myself included) make quite a little and are in debt quite a lot. Still, there is a huge disparity in future earning capacity. Moreover, lawyers, like many professionals, still have a "paying-your-dues" period when they're fresh out of lawschool.

Lots of lawyers take the first few years out of lawschool to "do good" (i.e. pro bono work), before they start making the big bucks and get used to their post-student lifestyle.

Obama certainly seems like this type to me; but I admit that I really don't know a whole heck of a lot about his background.
 
It's the bit about "We are still so close to the lives that most Americans are living," that really got me. I don't think their current lives are all that close to that of most Americans. Every politician tries to do this sort of thing, like Hillary pumping gas. They try to make people relate to them.
I still like him, i just get sick of these predicatable political tactics.
 
[quote name='pittpizza']Still, there is a huge disparity in future earning capacity. [/quote]

You and my friend will be working long after I retire.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']You and my friend will be working long after I retire.[/quote]


Gee I hope so. Retirement is the on-deck box to death.

So I guess I'll retire long after you're dead!

Besides, I like work. It gives you something to do. I plan on working even after I technically "retire."
 
Bad form on Obama's part. They didn't really need to do or say much to come off as 'closer' to the average American, other than to remind voters of the distance that Clinton and McCain have from them.

It's relative, of course, but the insincerity of someone whose household brought in 4.2 million last year claiming to be kinfolk with the working class is transparent as fuck.
 
[quote name='JolietJake']It's the bit about "We are still so close to the lives that most Americans are living," that really got me. I don't think their current lives are all that close to that of most Americans. Every politician tries to do this sort of thing, like Hillary pumping gas. They try to make people relate to them.
I still like him, i just get sick of these predicatable political tactics.[/QUOTE]

Obama was the President of the Harvard Law Review, that honor meant Obama was probably one of the top ten law students in the whole entire country. He could have taken a job at a firm somewhere making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year or started work at the Supreme Court.

Instead he decided to go back to Chicago and organize a voter registration drive.

The comfortable lifestyle he does have now happened only recently and due to his book sales, so if she meant "a few years ago" then yeah a little bit of hyperbole but not untrue.
 
[quote name='pittpizza']Gee I hope so. Retirement is the on-deck box to death.

So I guess I'll retire long after you're dead!

Besides, I like work. It gives you something to do. I plan on working even after I technically "retire."[/quote]

Not me. I work so I won't have to anymore. Here's hoping for the end of work at 50.

After that, my retirement dream is to babysit grandkids so my kids can save enough money to retire at 40.

Of course, you probably like what you do for a living. I'm not sure if you're lucky or not.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn'] I'm not sure if you're lucky or not.[/quote]

I am. My old man likes to say "luck is a residual of hard work", but I think I'm just lucky, lol.

Back on topic. On NPR (sorry to bring it up so much but what is wrong with citing your source?) this morning, or maybe yesterday evening, they had an analyst on talking about Hillary's attempts to liken herself to the working class by citing to her father's printing press, and by first sipping, then banging down a shot of Crown Royal at an event.

Every candidate does it. Heck they wouldn't be very good if they didn't. So I don't really blame them.

Maybe to the vs. board members on CAG it is transparent as hell; but I'd wager that most of the people talking about it here are more informed and politically aware than about 99% of the populace who eat that shit up like Gilbert Grape's moms.
 
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